Gluten-Free = Inflammatory-Free?

Gluten is on everyone’s radar today, and as endurance athletes our interests become especially piqued when we see how well many athletes are seemingly able to perform after ditching gluten from their diets. Olympians Ryan Hall and Amy Yoder Begley, along with the entire Garmin-Transitions pro cycling team are just a few examples. Not all of them are gluten intolerant but have gone gluten-free with the reasoning that the root problem of gluten intolerance is the inflammation that occurs when gluten is metabolized by the body; thus it’s also being dubbed the ‘anti-inflammatory diet.’